At my grad school we had exactly one workshop on how to prep musical examples, make sure they're cued up so that you don't futz around on stage while students wait
But nothing about good lecture practices, or stuff like think-pair-share even
It's kind of staggering how pervasive it is that faculty don't get any kind of pedagogical training
It's a bit different for SLACs, where there are numerous offices to assist with this--but it's still on-the-job training, for faculty who until recently came in with no explicit schooling in pedagogy
Because of the positive feedback loop of the right wing media bubble, these assholes have no idea what they sound like to other people
I wonder if that laid the groundwork for Obama winning Indiana in 2008
Really does seem like a different universe of electoral possibility
Look at the nature of the problem that Sara Gonzales identifies, and Bovino’s proposed solution
Her kid is having trouble making friends at recess. For that, Bovino is willing to pack tens of millions of immigrants off to the gulags
It’s amazing that he can brag about this even as the entire world can see that a conflict he thought would be done in days is dragging on for weeks and possibly beyond
He should probably shut up about Vietnam. That’s the kind of comparison you don’t want to invite
The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...
Just really laying it all out there isn’t he? This idea that rich countries should be immune from military destruction
President bone spurs just wants to sit in a gold leaf palace and rain Armageddon down on someplace halfway around the world
Beethoven as the Scorsese figure who editorializes about whether we really need 104 of those damn things
(yes, I recognize the analogy breaks down)
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and which
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hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
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(This is not, of course, to claim torture was never used, but it was not the kind of approach to things that you would brag about using, or advocate for on national television)
That stuff was always lurking under the surface, waiting for enough of its banishment from polite society to recede so that it can let its freak flag fly once more
It's like the post-9/11 vogue for torture, which had largely disappeared from polite discourse as a viable approach to law enforcement
Johnny Marr
King Sunny Ade
Kevin Eubanks
Yeah, I don’t care if we were the “good guys,” a return to the firebombing of civilian population centers, where the fires burn so intensively that more people died from asphyxiation then from the flames themselves, is pretty much indefensible
Two songs with the title "Somebody That I Used To Know," and they're both bangers
There is a house on my morning commute that has had a Trump sign up since 2016(!); they finally seem to have taken it down
I just want to note for the record how stunningly absurd it is to have a campaign lawn sign up for ten years. At that point this clown has become your entire personality
So the one thing that one used to be able to say in favor of capitalism -- that it was a relentless producer of innovation -- is now only true insofar as it innovates new vehicles of financialization and wealth accumulation
One thing is that the corporation, which used to be the stakeholder corporation of midcentury, used to plug its surplus value back into R&D
The present logic of shareholder value siphons off all of that money and puts it in stock buybacks, to boost the share value and pay out dividends
The clear 10% here is Gaza, I suspect
The divergence on issues that stopped many on the left from going to the polls is that this was no mere technocratic difference of opinion, but a clear moral line they were unwilling to cross
GOP moderates tend not to browbeat the MAGA true believers; to the extent they do, they are run out of the party
The inverse is true in the Democratic Party, where punching left is a time-honored sport, affirmed by the power base of the party
On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.
by artist JB Cornish
Didn't Anthony Bourdain do an episode of his show in Queens, because it was the easiest possible way to sample the entirety of global cuisine?
I think the real problem is that Paltrow probably can't eat in a bog-standard inexpensive ethnic restaurant anymore, now that she's a celebrity
Photo of a grey, sheer cliff face. The surface looks like it’s comprised of puzzle pieces. Blue sky is visible at the top of the photo.
Coastal hiking in Newfoundland, Canada is a treat for the eyes. Another view (last week) of the seaside cliffs near my hometown in Conception Bay North. #hiking #trail #ediacaran
Yeah, they're getting shit they need from low-wage labor markets halfway around the world
The container ship -- its standardized loading protocols, its increasingly automated ports -- are what has allowed companies to depress wages and undercut (and ultimately kill) American manufacturing
Charlize Theron on the Night Her Mother Killed Her Father in Self-Defense
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated story. These things are prevalent in a lot of homes. Women really get a very, very unfair shake, even in this country.
Nobody takes it seriously.
LEGO container ships! lol
Can't get the young 'uns started too early on neoliberalism
A Florida woman is facing charges after using a kayak in a mall fountain while dressed as a pirate and shouting orders at shoppers. Headshot shows a woman with spiky blond hair and an eyepatch
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